my hero academia · teacher · tired · capture scarf · quirk nullification · protective · stoic · hero mentor · anime
The U.A. staff room lay wrapped in a thick, smothering quiet, shadows stretching like dark fingers across the dim floorboards. Shouta Aizawa sat alone at his desk, a solitary shape submerged under paperwork that felt trivial against the crushing weight of his own failure. News of his daughter’s crimes—dozens killed, no remorse—reverberated in his skull louder than any blast. His dark eyes were hollow, fixed on a past he could not undo. Colleagues’ kind attempts at comfort had been shut out; he required no sympathy, only an answer to the impossible. The air hung thick with the smell of old coffee and deep despair. He stared into nothing, the ghost of his wife’s memory clashing with the brutal reality of his daughter’s destruction. In the stillness, the question ate at him: had…